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The Little White Window (Enschede)
He said, "Could you make one of those miniature landscapes you do for each of the places we've been to on our Polaroid journey? For Enschede, Vienna, New York and Arles? Something that symbolises the place and commemorates your visit on Polaroid?"
"Sounds fun," I said.
But then he said, "Great. Can you do them by Friday morning, please?"
I gulped.
Normally, for just one of these little landscapes, it takes me at least a week to gather the elements and set everything up. I wasn't sure I could do four of these things with just one week to work in. I have been doing my best and I am making good progress, but I now only have less than three days - or rather nights - to go. Wish me luck.
This one was for Enschede.
Shotdate | -location:
2010
Aug.
01
| Muenchen (DE)
Camera
| Filmtype:
195
| ID-UV
(expired)
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Except for the usual colour correction and dust removal, no Photoshop was used here. The windmill was built from a model railway kit, the field is made from artificial grass and I actually sat down and made the wall, window and curtains by hand out of cardboard, paper, glue, fabric and thread. The little "mini-me" is a cut-out made from a print of a Polaroid and the whole landscape was set up on my kitchen table.
I used different lamps to make the wallpapered "inside" and the grassy "outside" look like two entirely different worlds. Although the "outside" windmill world and the square white frame it is in makes it seem more like it represents the world of Polaroid, you might notice that that is actually the world with more natural colours in it. The wallpapered "inside" world meanwhile is typically ID-UV-tinged. This is because I was trying to capture what it might look like to be inside a Polaroid, looking out at the real world from the other side of the frame (and seeing someone out there in the real world, looking in at you).
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